Arlene Paredes

Psychologists are now offering their services online. Some patients prefer it but this set up carries with it a risk especially for very sensitive cases.

Sep 26, 2011

A trial of a prostate cancer drug at a London hospital has been stopped early because it was showing such good results that doctors felt it would be unethical to withhold it from the placebo group.

Sep 26, 2011

Just weeks after a NASA's UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) has scattered its pieces somewhere on Earth, the planet is now in for another round of space junk landing. This time, its pieces are more likely to hit someone.

Sep 26, 2011

The defunct UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite), has fallen from space over the weekend, and experts share thoughts on where its pieces could have fallen.

Sep 26, 2011

A New Zealand ex-couple faces animal cruelty charges after police found 38 frozen cat bodies in a man's home. The couple pledged not guilty, saying they are cat lovers.

Sep 26, 2011

A scientific way to read minds is a work in progress, but technology has moved forward yet again, matching YouTube videos to blood flow analysis by MRI scanners, The Telegraph (UK) reports.

Sep 23, 2011

A new study suggests that anyone who has been trying unsuccessfully for years to lose weight must have set unrealistic goals, become frustrated and eventually regained weight.

Sep 23, 2011

Facebook has unveiled Timeline at its annual f8 developers' conference in San Francisco on Thursday. Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg also showed off the social network's new integration with Spotify, Hulu and Netflix, saying media companies have partnered with Facebook to reinvent the industry.

Sep 23, 2011

A couple of days before Facebook's much anticipated f8 convergence in San Francisco, California, Facebook users have spotted numerous changes in the social network, making some users wonder if Google+ is as simple and neat as Facebook used to be when it was "new."

Sep 23, 2011

US ambassador to the Philippines Harry Thomas claims 40% of foreign men visiting the Philippines are sex tourists, which actually dismayed Philippine tourism officials.

Sep 23, 2011

This weekend, there is one-in-3200 risk that the speeding debris of the defunct 6-tonne, 35-ft NASA satellite the size of a school bus would hit someone on Earth. What do you do if you got "lucky?" NASA says, "Don't touch it."

Sep 23, 2011

Nikon on Wednesday unveiled its first mirrorless cameras, Nikon 1 J1 and Nikon 1 V1, priced at $915 and $1300. They have large sensors, giving good picture quality, but no optical viewfinders, enabling manufacturers to keep the camera body compact and light.

Sep 22, 2011

Sales of existing homes climbed 7.7 per cent from the previous month to an annual rate of 5.03 million units, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said on Wednesday. The median price was 5.1 per cent lower than a year earlier, making analysts remark that the outlook is still grim for real estate.

Sep 22, 2011

British and American scientists have made quite a breakthrough in their understanding of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and cholesterol could be involved in helping those with HIV to not spread the virus.

Sep 22, 2011

Facebook is set to recruit a high-profile executive whose primary role is to make sure that the social network would establish solid ties in the film and music industries in a bid to boost its content.

Sep 22, 2011

Skype has been informed by a researcher it is vulnerable to information thieves online. In a Fairfax Media report, security researcher Phil Purviance of AppSec Consulting says a hole in Skype's system for Phone and iPod Touch devices.

Sep 22, 2011

A study on a human skull found in the Iwo Eleru cave in Nigeria, West Africa, shows that modern humans and older subspecies of human might have lived at the same era and even reproduced in the region. Modern humans are estimated to have first appeared in Africa 200,000 years ago. Some scientists are saying that older humans must have lingered and interacted with the new generation of human life.

Sep 21, 2011

Federal prosecutors said on Tuesday that one of the biggest online poker sites, Full Tilt Poker, was taking in millions of dollars in bets, and was claimed to be misusing the players' money.

Sep 21, 2011

The Heart Foundation, which grants the use of the health seal in license agreements, said it has asked McDonalds to remove the popular Tick sign, not as a criticism, but as a move indicating a change in the foundation's focus. McDonald's pays about $300,000 a year for the right to display the Tick seal.

Sep 21, 2011

A 2-year-old boy from Maryland had shot himself to the head. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police are investigating the details of how the toddler got himself killed.

Sep 21, 2011

Facebook friends will soon be able to see a real-time stream of what the others are watching and listening to in the web in real-time, via a "ticker" stream. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is expected to unveil more changes at FB in its upcoming f8 conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

Sep 21, 2011

Astronauts on board the International Space Station enjoy spectacular views of the aurora australis, the southern hemisphere's counterpart to the Northern Lights.

Sep 21, 2011

New Zealand parents phone a radio station broadcasting the situation of sex ed in schools and expressed their dissatisfaction, saying the lessons have gone too far.

Sep 20, 2011

A Perth martial artist who had killed his wife by a single punch in the head, then left her body to rot in a bedroom, has been sentenced by the WA Supreme Court today to five years in jail. The martial artist was reportedly drunk when he learned that his then estranged wife was having an affair with the best man from their wedding.

Sep 20, 2011

The satirical ABC TV show At Home With Julia will air tomorrow a sex scene depicting the prime minister lying on the floor with his partner, and they are draped by the Australian flag. Members of the Parliament question the scene, saying it is distasteful and out of bounds.

Sep 20, 2011

An intoxicated epileptic driver crashed into a man causing his death in November. The court that heard the case merely asked the driver to pay a fine of $500 and advised to stay away from driving for five months.

Sep 20, 2011

iiNet has unveiled its National Broadband Network (NBN) packages, while other ISP giants Optus and Telstra have yet to release theirs. iiNet's $49.95 monthly bill covers 40GB data quota and maximum speeds of 12 Mbps.

Sep 20, 2011

Norwegian mass killer who admitted killing 77 people in July has cried out torture over his solitary confinement at a court hearing on Monday. Judge Anne Margrethe Lund said the isolation was a necessary move to keep Breivik from establishing communication with possible allies outside jail. Police are still investigating whether Breivik has a network that helped him carry out the killings.

Sep 20, 2011

Cryos, the world's largest sperm bank, told Ekstra Bladet newspaper its sperm bank's stores had more than enough supply of sperm from redheads and it will be more selective in accepting donors. About 600 redhead donors are in queue to donate their sperm but Cryos deemed it necessary to stop at this point.

Sep 20, 2011